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It's a lovely small stream rod but I'm not giving my 6'9" Constable and 7' Tom Fulk bamboo rods enough use so I figured I'd sell it. If I lived on a jump across creek I wouldn't sell it.

Sharpes Eighty Five Bamboo Fly rod. 8’5”. Two piece, 1 tip. 4.8 ounces. Staggered ferrule so tip is longer than butt section by design. Tip section comes with bamboo plug for us when rod is stored. Yellow thread tipped with red. Rated as a 5-6 weight.Rod end engraved 0.4 along top with 173...

That lake has been on my list to visit. How was the road to the trailhead (can sometimes be sketchy) and how was the waytrail to the lake?

Granger Victory 9660 9’6” 3 piece, 2 tips. 6.2 oz. Prob 1935 granger. Has short coke bottle reel seat. Dates to 1935-1938because of the short 5& 3/4" coke bottle reel seat. Post 1938 grangers used a 7 inch reversed half wells grip. Amber colored ammoniated cane with varnish finish. In...

6'6" Sharpes Scottie Bamboo Fly rod. 2 piece, 2 tips. 2.6 ounces. 4/5 weight. 5 & 1/2" cork grip. Downlocking sliding ring over cork reel seat. Impregnated cane which is impervious to wet and doesn't need to be revarnished. Comes with original Sharpes of Aberdeen bag and an aluminum tube...

Was inspired by @Tom Butler to do some bamboo blue lining. I fished a 6'9" Constable 4 weight and my friend fished a 6' Winston Little Feller 3 weight. Size 14 Royal Wulffs and Yellow Humpies did the trick. Mostly small fish but this pool produced a surprise on a Royal Wulff... Get better...

Tom, is that a brookie or a bull trout?

Nice report. Classic wets and bamboo. That's what it's about.

The black and blae is a winged black pennell. Golden pheasant tippet tail, black dubbed or floss body ribbed with silver tinsel, black hackle and sparse jay or starling wings. I tuck a small box of size 16-18 flies, including black and blae wet flies in my fishing jacket for calm days and...

Just returned from a 4 night stay at Meadow Lakes Fishing Camp. I fished an 8'6 inch Winston bamboo 6 weight and an 8'6" Tom Fulk bamboo 6 weight. My rodmaking friend Doug Moore made a delightful 8' "Meadow Lake" 6 weight bamboo fly rod using a Payne Taper for the trip. The lodge was full...

I prefer double taper floating lines with bamboo. Flexes the cane better. Also like double taper for swinging wets. Easy to mend.

Cooper Lake out of CleElum/Roslyn. Great views. Owhi Campground (22 tent sites only) at lake. Fishing available in lake with boat or float tube(brooks, rainbow, browns and cutts). Plenty of hiking accessible from campground (Pete Lake one way and Cooper River trail the other way from...

Haven't had any problems with the guy who lives next to the launch - or his dogs. He's chatty. I heard that he used to own most of the land around the lake. He sold the land but has the right to live there for life. Someone tried to turn the lake into a hipcamp destination by ploughing a...

Iceland. Wide open spaces... Brown trout... Sea-trout... Artic Char...

There are wild reproducing trout in the high altitude cold-waters streams of Koke'e State park.

But have you caught trout in Hawaii. I understand there are trout in a couple high mountain streams in Kaua"i.

Yes. I buy the skins from the uk. They are a little bit brighter and more brilliant than dyed blue guinea. I also like to use jay feathers for wings

The lovely and talented Mrs Westburg accompanied me on a trip to an alpine tarn. One of the steeper pitches on the way in. There were snowbanks along the shore. I fished my Granger 8642 bamboo rod, 5 weight intermediate line, a claret bumble and a golden olive bumble and found quite a few...

Haig-Brown often fished two flies in BC. Here's a passage from Western Angler: "Over several seasons on the Nimpkish, I fished two flies on a cast, one of them a dark fly, such as Greenwells Glory, the other bright, full-dress, salmon fly, Torrish, Silver doctor, or Durham Ranger. I found that...

Here's a picture of the sliding band reel seat versus your uplocking seat. Your rod also has a cigar handle reel seat and mine has what I think is called a half wells.